[Ads-l] Antedating of "Swinger"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Robert S. Gold's book Jazz Talk has the following citations for "swinger" (OED, 3.b., [fashionable person], 1965)

1959 Jazz Poems 6  If you wish to be a swinger, drink and get high.

1959 Swinging Syllables, s.v. swinger: hip, like a Satellite.

Fred Shapiro

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